Colin Brant’s Kreidefelsen (German for “chalk cliffs”) offers a vertiginous view from above, where trees frame a distant shoreline and cliffs dissolve into shifting bands of color. The title recalls the famed Kreidefelsen auf Rügen painted by Caspar David Friedrich, situating Brant’s work within a lineage of Romantic landscape while reimagining it for the present. Thin washes of pigment create a luminous ground, through which scuffled strokes suggest the play of light across water and stone. The painting hovers between observation and invention: forms appear precise yet slip toward abstraction. Brant captures not only the terrain itself but the sensation of looking—how distance, atmosphere, and time mediate vision, transforming landscape into a meditation on impermanence.Inquire